Originally Posted by
Tom Gagnon
For threaded fasteners, I really prefer to download the Part so that I can suppress the thread cut feature. IIRC, it's usually a "Swept Cut" feature. It's nice that I haven't encountered any parts from there where subsequent features (in parent/children relation) rely on the thread being there. Otherwise, suppressing a parent will necessarily suppress its children. The part I find useful in assemblies at the scale I draw is a bolt with no thread shown as a cylinder with a hex head, a NPT (threaded pipe) socket expressed as a simple tapered smooth surface, etc. If drawing details with fasteners, you may want to unsuppress the features, which is doable with a part configuration in the part so you have a default and simple configs, or default and complex configs depending on what you'd normally use.